HERNANDO RUIZ OCAMPO
1911 - 1978
H.R. OCAMPO
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National Artist in Visual Arts (1991)
was a leading figure in Philippine Modern Art
member of the Saturday Group Artist
one of the Thirteen Moderns
formed the triumvirate of neo-realist
artworks were nationalistic and reflected the
harsh realities of the country after World War II
• many of his works also depicted the beautiful
Philippine Landscape
H.R. OCAMPO
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PARENTS: Emilio Ocampo and Delfina Ruiz
DATE OF BIRTH: April 28, 1911
BIRTHPLACE: Santa Cruz, Manila
Studied law, Commerce and Creative Writing
H.R. OCAMPO
• WORK EXPERIENCE:
- Philippine Education Company (1931)
- Executive secretary of the National Paper Mills,
Inc. (1935)
- He was in the Script department of Palaris Feler
and Fernando Poe Productions after the war
H.R. OCAMPO AS A WRITER
• Stage play writer during the Japanese Occupation
• known for his prize-winning fiction “Bakya,” and “Rice
and Bullets.
• Chief scriptwriter and assistant director of the
Associated Artists
• assigned by the Japanese to be a censor for the stage
and for the Taliba newspaper
• assigned second lieutenant in Straughn’s Guerrillas
• became an editor for the Manila Sunday Chronicle
Magazine, and a producer-director for the Filipino
Players Guild in 1958 to 1968
H.R. OCAMPO’S DIVISION OF YEARS
AS AN ARTIST
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1929 to 1934: Aping Amorsolo Period
1939 to 1945: Proletarian Period
1945 to 1963: Transitional Period
1963 to1968: Mutants Period
1968 onwards: Visual Melody Period
APING AMORSOLO PERIOD
• He tried to paint like Amorsolo
PROLETARIAN PERIOD
• He painted with his own style
• his paintings were of poverty-stricken
humanity
TRANSITIONAL PERIOD
• Non objective painting became his main
interest
• His figures and natural objects became
simplified
MUTANTS PERIOD
• symbols of mutants, fantasies on the havoc
wrought by nuclear warfare
VISUAL MELODY PERIOD
• Ocampo exhibits paradoxical orderliness in his
method of painting
• H.R. Ocampo died on December 28, 1978 in
Caloocan City
H.R. OCAMPO AS A NATIONAL ARTIST
• won the first prize in the AAP Twenty-Second Annual
Exhibition in 1969 with “Circle”
• His second one-man show celebrating his 65th birthday
held in September 1976 at ABC Galleries was a major
art event
• First Republic Cultural Award in Painting in 1954
• “Patnubay ng Sining” Araw ng Maynila Award, 1969
• “Diwa ng Lahi” highest cultural award, Araw ng
Maynila, 1976
• “Outstanding Citizen Award”, Caloocan City, 1977
H.R. OCAMPO AS A NATIONAL ARTIST
• Founded “Taza de Oro Group”
• Consultant for: Board for Art Consultants, Central Bank of
the Philippines, 1975-1977; Board for Art Consultants,
National Media Production Center, since 1974; Marketing
and Advertising Consultant, La Tondeña, Inc., since 1969
• His painting entitled “Simula” or “Genesis” was blown up
for the curtain of the Center’s theatre for the Performing
Arts
• Ocampo’s abstract canvases capture the tropical lushness
of our country, that unity of environment, sunlight,
atmosphere, color, bones and sinews of our sun blessed
land, in spite of the fact that he expresses himself in the
language of abstraction
ACHIEVEMENTS
• 1948 – 6th Prize, Art Association of the Philippines, for Nude
with Candle and Flower
• 1949 – 3rd Prize, Manila Club Art Exhibition, for Angel’s Kiss
• 1950 – 1st Prize, Art Association of the Philippines, for
Arabesque
• 1950 – 2nd Prize, Art Association of the Philippines, for Man
and Carabao
• 1951 – 1st Prize and Special Award, Art Association of the
Philippines, for Ancestors
• 1951 – Honorable Mention, Art Association of the
Philippines, for Intramuros
• 1954 – 3rd Prize, Art Association of the Philippines, for 53-E
ACHIEVEMENTS
• 1965 – Republic Cultural Award
• 1955 – Honorable Mention, Art Association of the
Philippines, for 54-A
• 1958 – 2nd Prize and Purchase Prize, Art Association of the
Philippines, for Nativity
• 1969 – 1st Prize, Art Association of the Philippines, for Circle
• 1969 – Patnubay ng Sining at Kalinangan Award, from the
City of Manila
• 1976 – Diwa ng Lahi Award, from the City of Manila
• 1979 – Gawad CCP para sa Sining Award, from the Cultural
Center of the Philippine
MAJOR WORKS
• 1948 – Calvary
• 1961 – Mother and Child
• 1967 – Easter Sunday
• 1968 – Genesis
ABSTRACTION
ABSTRACTION (1978)
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HARVEST FESTIVAL (1971)
HOMAGE TO TANDANG SORA (1977)
MADONNA AND CHILD
MOTHER AND CHILD (1954)
MUTANTS-C (1964)
53-Q (SARIMANOK) (1953)
UNTITLED (1974)
UNTITLED
THIRTEEN MODERNS
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Victorio Edades
Franciso Ocampo
Gala Ocampo
Diosdado Lorenzo
Demetrio Diego
Hernando Ocampo
Vicente Manansala
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Anita Magsaysay-Ho
Cesar Legaspi
Bonifacio Cristobal
Jose Pardo
Arsenio Capili
Ricarte Purugganan
TRIUMVIRATE OF NEO-REALIST
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Hernando Ocampo
Vicente Manansala
Cesar Legaspi
Romeo Tabuena
Anita Magsaysay-Ho
Manuel Rodriguez Sr.
Arturo Luz
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Nena Saguil
Cenon Rivera
Jose Joya
J. Elizalde Navarro
Lee Aguinaldo
David Cortez Medalla